The development comes just hours after he was indicted by a Cook County grand jury.

"Jussie Smollett is now officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation by #ChicagoPolice for filing a false police report (Class 4 felony),"Guglielmi wrote on Twitter earlier in the evening. "Detectives are currently presenting evidence before a Cook County Grand Jury."

Smollett filed a police report on January 29th alleging that he had been attacked by two masked men who hurled racist and homophobic slurs at him after leaving a Subway sandwich shop in Chicago around 2 am that morning.

Smollett alleged that the men beat him and poured bleach over him. The black actor who is also openly gay alleged that the attackers put a noose around his neck.

The crime was investigated as a "possible hate crime" by local authorities.

Sources with the Chicago police department say that Smollett may have paid those two men to stage an assault. Some speculate the actor was upset that a threatening letter he received a week prior did not get enough attention.